"If you have at least one coal mine, youmay build a rail link from any of the three ‘Chicago’ name boxes. You mayalso build to a ‘Chicago’ name box from an adjacent Minnesota location.You can only use a coal mine industry card if you already have a coal mineor if you are connected to a ‘Chicago’ name box by rail link."

Can you build in the first round in Chicago with a coal mine industry card, or does this rule also count for the very first building action?

"If you have at least one coal mine, youmay build a rail link from any of the three ‘Chicago’ name boxes. You mayalso build to a ‘Chicago’ name box from an adjacent Minnesota location.You can only use a coal mine industry card if you already have a coal mineor if you are connected to a ‘Chicago’ name box by rail link."

Can you build in the first round in Chicago with a coal mine industry card, or does this rule also count for the very first building action?

1. You may use a coal mine industry card as your first build.

2. You may also use a coal mine industry card to build in Chicago if you already have a coal mine and/or if you are connected to Chicago by a rail link.

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Thanks for the answer - we played that wrong as well.

From the wording we all understood, that you cannot build with a coal mine card in Chicago unless you had Industry in Chicago. Since this was no different from the normal building rules we thought specially emphasizing this must mean the first turn - hence only building in Chicago with region cards or by connecting via rail.